Sustainable Water Management for the Paso del Norte Border Region

Minutes from 9/3/98

ADMINISTRATIVE

* Correction - Dr. Stolp’s phone # on roster should be -8951 not -8954

* Dr. Stolp in Los Angeles on 9/10/98

* Readings for 9/10 - Debra to send out list serv message on 9/4

* Grades:

- evaluated for fall and spring semesters (unless noted otherwise)

- approximately 75% writing / 25% participation, management skills, etc.

 

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

* Potential visitor: Craig Peterson from Water Development Board

* Class Manager System

- Responsibilities divided between minute taker and class manager

- Class manager responsible for agenda facilitation, introduction of

visitors, etc.

- Sandra will develop schedule; Sally will be first manager;

- Minute taker will become next manager (to know speakers, agenda, etc.)

 

WATER MANAGEMENT PRESENTATION (Dr. Schmandt)

(see Sally if need notes)

 

TASKS

* Delphi policy survey eliminated from project based on consensus opinion

of professors and students

* Institutions/Matrix:

                                Mexico      N. Mexico     Texas

International

Federal

Regional

State

Local

 

INTERNATIONAL:

IBWC/CILA (International Boundary and Water Commission/Comision
Internacional de Limites y Aguas) - oversees resource management along the
U.S.-Mexico boundary; oversees any water structures; orig. started (1889)
as boundary demarcation agency

FEDERAL

* United States

U.S. EPA -- water quality, NAFTA envrionmental agreements
Bureau of Reclamation (Dept. of Interior) - irrigation projects in 17
western states
Army Corps of Engineers (Dept. of Defense) - suspect not much role but need to verify; any dredging activities in the Rio Grande?

* Mexico

SEMARNAP Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries.  Sub-agencies include       

            -- Comision Nacional de Agua - main actor in water policy

            -- PROFEPA (environmental attorney general, enforcement)

            -- Instituto Nacional de Ecologia - INE (environmental research)

REGIONAL

Rio Grande Compact Commission- Texas & N. Mexico formed to resolve disputes
Non governmental organizations - Rio Grande Coalition (El Paso, opening
office in Juarez); Others?

STATE / LOCAL

Irrigation districts - Mexico, Texas, New Mexico
Water Utilities (El Paso, Juarez, Las Cruces)
New Mexico:
--  Office of the State Engineer
--  New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission
--  Elephant Butte Irrigation District
Texas:
--  Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission
--  Texas: Water Development Board (planning, oversight of SB 1 councils)
--  Paso del Norte water  planning council (exact name?) - will be developing regional basin water plan; law permits planning councils to invite adjacent jurisdictions
--  El Paso Water Improvement District #1
--  El Paso Water Utilities
Mexico:
--  State undersecretaries of ecology
--  Basin councils (officially formed but not yet active (?) for Rio Bravo)
--  Ayuntamiento de Cd. Juárez
--  Junta Municipal de Agua y Saneamiento
Non governmental organizations ?

ISSUES (partial list)

Projected population growth to 2040
Water supply and demand (using WEAP model)
Binational management of ground water
Re-use of waste water
Options for increasing efficiency of agricultural water use
Evaluation of IBWC/CILA activities
Options for increased use of Rio Grande water for cities

   

AGENDA ITEMS FOR 9/10/98

Discussion/decision on Division of Tasks

Notice of class manager schedule

 

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